(October 6, 2023 at 9:50 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(October 6, 2023 at 4:15 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I’ve long known that sharks (as a species) are older than the rings of Saturn. Today I learned that they’re also older than Polaris.
Boru
I think it is extremely unlikely that any extent shark species is anywhere near as old as Polaris or the rings of Saturn.
the shark family, probably, but the shark family is mostly made up of species that went extinct hundreds of millions of years ago.
Yes, 'family' would have been a better term. It's not sensibly arguable though, that there were sharks before there were rings 'round Saturn, and LONG before there was Polaris.
Boru
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